startxwin not found; solution
Tim Prince
n8tm@aol.com
Sun Jun 5 01:44:00 GMT 2011
On 6/4/2011 7:06 PM, Dave Matthews wrote:
> I've tried to install Cygwin/X several time over the last two months and
> always it only installed Cygwin, no X at all. "startxwin not found" and
> nothing relevant in /usr/bin.
>
> The problem was that the Default setting of the installer
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe for the X11 package is "Skip".
>
> So when you've stepped through the intaller to the "Select Packages"
> screen, click X11 and set it to "Install".
>
As the documents tell you, xinit is required for startxwin, and that
rquires setup to bring in the necessary X11 dependencies. How could you
spend 2 months on this without looking it up?
Answered earlier from Blackberry, but the spam filter here doesn't
permit that.
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Tim Prince
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